 Good evening guys and girls, thank you so much for watching theCUBE's live coverage of Google Cloud Next, 23 live from the Moscone Center South in San Francisco, Lisa Martin here with John Furrier. We've been here all day covering all of the news that you may have heard or may not this morning that came from Google and its partner ecosystem. We're going to be continuing that conversation with a 2023 at Google partner of the year. Infosys joins John Furrier and me, Lisa Martin. Scott Cranakis here, the AVP Global Head of Google Cloud Alliance at Infosys and Cheyenne Vijayan, AVP Head of Google Cloud Economy at Infosys, welcome and congratulations, your pin say it, 2023 partner of the year. Scott, talk to us a little bit about Infosys, how you guys are working with Google Cloud and then Cheyenne will get your perspective as well. Sure, absolutely, thank you, thank you for being here. Yeah, thank you for having us. So we have a very strategic relationship with Google Cloud, the partnerships in acceleration mode and there's a in a various couple of different ways. One is definitely capability building around all their different various programs, certifications, specializations, expertise badges and so on. The other is really like aligning as teams in terms of focused accounts, finding synergies like in certain industries and we'll talk more about that today. But we see this as a rapidly growing partnership and quite frankly just excited to be here face to face with a lot of my colleagues at Google Cloud this week. The excitement is really high though right now. I've never seen the excitement or heat for the AI from a real legit business transformation. Absolutely, yeah. Absolutely, absolutely. Share your perspectives. I love your title, The Head of Google Cloud Economy. Talk a little bit about what that is and how you're working with, from Infosys' perspective with the Google Cloud Economy. Sure, sure, sure, absolutely, absolutely. So we have what we call as a very deep 360 degree relationship with Google. What I mean by that is we are each other's large partners and customers of each other. So we deliver a lot of services into Google and the entire Alphabet family on one side. On the other side, we are a very large customer of Google especially in the Asia Pacific area and together we go to market to help our joint customers in their transformation journeys as well. So it's a very, very deep relationship and how that helps us and our customers is that on one side this gives us very deep understanding of Google products and their cutting edge technology. And on the other hand, we couple that with our own industry specific knowledge of all the various industries that we service. Bringing those two together gives us a very, very good base to help our customers. All our customers are in their digital transformation journey, right? So with this combination of capabilities, we're able to really innovate. We are both known for our innovation in our respective areas. We come together, we innovate and we focus on delivering business value, tangible business value to our customers, right? And I can bring it to life with examples, right? Before we get there, let's get the news out about the partner of the year award. You got two awards, so that's notable. Congratulations. What were the areas that you guys were recognized for your leadership and success? Right, so this year we are recognized for both the industry partner of the year and these specialization partner of the year. On the industry side, it is for the supply chain and logistics part. It's a global award and on the specialization side it's for application development. Those were the two areas and it's a nod to, you know, the kind of innovation that we are driving with some of our largest joint customers globally in both these areas. We had Carrie on earlier. She runs industries for Google Cloud and she was talking about how the AI is really disrupting a lot of the process management side of it, so I can imagine on the supply chain side, the innovations coming in must have been really strong. Can you give an example of how you guys have put some new game-changing technology and services in place? Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. So if you look at the supply chain industry or for that matter supply chain and the channel industry, right, some of the biggest challenges that they are facing across the board, you know, including the global leaders, is really focused around getting real time insights into inventory, into changing consumer behavior, into really sensing the demand because it's, you know, that industry is spread across such a huge set of players, right, from where it gets manufactured, the products, the channels, to the retailers, to the distributors and everybody in between and the consumers on the other hand. So that's a huge amount of challenges with respect to gaining insight. So that's the area that we've been helping many customers in and we're doing it in multiple ways. With some of the customers, it's directly about solving their business needs. It's about not just solving for their efficiency and insight relations, but also trying to help them with getting into new market segments, right, getting into completely new, you know, revenue streams for them as well. And I can illustrate with a few examples. That's one side and I'll double click on it. The other is we've paralleled our experiences into certain products that we have built, which actually all these, you know, these industry players can actually consume, that gives them the real time insights into what's happening on the same course. You're connected to all these different partners, be it channel players, distributors, retailers, globally. So we get a level of insight and real time insight into what's happening on the across, that then the, you know, these CPG companies or manufacturing companies or pharma companies can actually, you know, really tap into. And that gives them to not just the visibility, real time visibility, but they also get them a sense of how the consumer behavior is changing as well. So they can in real time adjust their, you know, the product movement across the supply chain, right? So that's what we're doing. We are back on the, some of the very cool innovative ones that we have done. So for example, for one of the leading supply chain players in the Americas, their vision was to become a single stop leading supply chain provider in the US and across North America, right? And for them, what we're doing is we are building a supply chain orchestration engine, completely net new, right? On Google Cloud. And through that, what we're building out is a multimodal marketplace, a highly automated engine, through which at any point in time, you know, any consumer or any company that is taking their services, get real time visibility on how their products are moving and also give them their, you know, an ability to move any product anywhere and get it delivered anywhere across the US. So they work with this platform, integrates pretty much all the major players who are otherwise disparate. You know, disparate. That's what we all want is that real time information. Scott, I want to bring you back into the conversation. Talk a little bit more about, you're the head of the Alliance. How is, is Infosys working with Google Cloud? Talk about the evolution of the partnership. And even some of the, I mean, it was like a cannon of news this morning. Some of the things coming out from Google Cloud that excite you about the direction that it can take the partnership. Yeah, yeah. So thanks for that question. So a lot of it gets into enablement, right? In terms of like what we do, we have a very large company. And just to give it a little bit of perspective, we do these things called Google Cloud Delivery Summits every year. We've done it for the last three years. We just wrapped up our most recent delivery summit. It was two months long, so eight weeks, 21,000 participants, right? Over the course of eight weeks, this included trainings, knowledge sessions, and also a hackathon. We got close to 1,000 people that were certified, right? And we also did a hackathon with over 300 teams involved. So I think it really encapsulates the energy, the excitement, the focus, and also the capabilities that we have inside Infosys for Google Cloud. And like the other award that we won was around app development, application development. And I think it really shows in terms of like, out of the recent, this is one of the largest practices we have inside Infosys. In fact, we're showcasing our Infosys Enterprise Live app development platform this week. It's really around workflows and AI-enabled tools, and really trying to simplify the app modernization journey on GCP. But just between the solution building we're doing, between the delivery summits we're doing, and this is global, right? Obviously, heavy presence in India. But we're doing this all around the globe. We have a new training facility in Indianapolis in the U.S. The excitement is great as the Alliance Manager responsible for this partnership. It's great to see the energy and the focus. Great to see the thousands of people get certified and all the participants that over a week here that shows excitement. The question I have for you, if you don't mind sharing, if people are watching and might have a different perception of Google Cloud from a couple of years ago, what's new now? The other chance to say to someone watching, hey, this is what's up with Google. Get on board or what's the update? How would you share? How would you articulate Google Cloud now versus just even a year or two ago? Yeah. What would you guys say? Great question. Actually, when you look at, let's start from the customer journey of what are they trying to do, right? If you look at the enterprise customers, they're all in this digital transformation journey, right? And digital transformation, if you really boil down to what are the big components of it, there is AI coupled with Cloud. That's what is driving digital transformation. And so if you look at the Google Cloud offerings from that standpoint, they're really leading the pack with that combination of Cloud and AI. Any way ahead on the AI space earlier, now with the combined Cloud plus AI combination, it's really best of breed. Because what's happening is the Cloud part gives you the scalability and the modern environment for you to innovate. Very, very fast. But the AI part gives you the insights that you can then turn into very quick decisions that can drive up business growth and execution as well. So that combination that Google has got it right now, that's really something which is unique. And that's very, very contextual for any customer who's on their transformation journey today. That's a quick, this thing. Awesome. And how? What did you say? I would say over the last few years, we've both evolved as partnering together. This ranges everything from their partner programs into our capability building that I just spoke about, and then also just the market presence. I think back at three years ago, when I took this role in terms of what was Google Cloud going to be three years from now? And I think we're really happy on where we've both come together as partners. It's interesting, the ecosystem is thriving for Google. The ISVs, the SIs, GSIs all really taking advantage of the Cloud plus AI. Absolutely. Relevance in the enterprise segment has really, really improved over the last several years. When Google came in, it was more of a consumer side and all of those properties, the billion dollar properties. They still cost their own engineers. That's the joke we used to say. They've evolved. Thomas Currian, it's very clear, he came in, he said from day one, we're not going to build products for ourselves because they have a great engineers, and we all know that. Enterprise is, ah, maybe the solutions look good. That's what you guys are going to have. I'd love to hear Scott from your perspective on AI first. We heard that this morning in the keynote from Thomas, from TK, from others as well. What does that mean to Infosys and how does your strategy align with that of Google's, from an alliance lens? Yeah, well, we're an AI first company. In fact, we've rolled out recently in the press, Infosys Topaz. It's actually more of a slogan in terms of Infosys and the fact that we have thousands of assets that solve business challenges for industries, different blueprints, intellectual property on top of Google Cloud that is AI based. And obviously we're now immersed in Gen AI capabilities. But as a company, this isn't even, this isn't a new phenomenon for us. When it comes to AI, we've been doing this for a number of years and it's been the core strategy of our company. And what does it mean to your customers? How do they embrace, approach, adopt an AI first mentality? Yeah, so enablement, evangelization, workshops, right? Making sure that there's an appreciation for the different use cases that apply to their business. In fact, even working with customers in terms of hackathons and bringing like great ideas to the table and then working on AI, whether it's like a CC AI solution or their contact center monetization or so on, but really getting down to real use cases that impact the business day to day. What's great is you guys are a great example of when we were watching the cloud rise emerge, the smart partners build capabilities on top of the cloud in Gen one. You guys were one of them, you mentioned a few examples. Okay, so that you kind of built on top of the hyperscalers, okay? And Google being one of them. Now that investment pays dividends because now AI comes in, you got speed to value much faster, product market fit on things, capabilities, scale. Yeah, absolutely. That you might not have had just putting stuff together, right? I mean, the old model, hey, that's going to probably help bring people together, put a party together, solution. Now you're the solution provider. Correct, absolutely. That's the new game. It's a super cloud experience. You're bringing a multiple environment, cloud market, and multiple elements together at a glue layer. Yeah, absolutely. And then integrating in the customer. Correct, that's exactly what we're done. So for us, we have bought in our several years of experience, right, into two major offerings. One is called Cobalt and the other is Topaz, right? Cobalt is focused on the cloud part, right? So it has got hundreds of thousands of assets that we have built over time from industry platforms all the way to technology adoption accelerators. All of that helps customers to accelerate the journey very quickly because there is this whole layer of customization to be done on the hyperscaler environments in order for enterprises to take advantage of cloud and to get it to a standard that meets their compliance requirements and all that. So the Cobalt set of offerings takes care of that and built on top of that is the Topaz set of offerings. Topaz offerings are focused on the AI and the Gen AI capabilities, right? So we have hundreds of pre-built models. We have- That's your data, it's your knowledge. Right, so we bring all of this so when we get into a client environment, it's very easy to take them on that journey. You know, cut down the time to market or time to value for them because all of these can be easily plugged in, maybe customized if they want it to be. Otherwise just start using them and straight go to value. You know, Lisa and I have been talking about this on theCUBE. Lisa, for many months in the past year and a half, AI scales data, check, makes it smarter, check. It also scales knowledge and intellect and work. Previous body of work in this case, recipes, tempos, whatever you want to call them, use cases. I mean, the combination of all that takes your work and effort, puts it into a scale mode. Got it, yeah. Scale and reuse, speed. The insight, unlocking that value. Yeah, awesome. Absolutely. Well, time to value, you mentioned that, Shayne. Time to value is not just a phrase or a marketing term. There's a lot of, I want to say value to it, but there's a lot of impact that it can make. Last question, Scott, is free as we wrap here. With the news coming out today, the evolution of the event that you guys talked about, the partnership, what are some of the things that we can be looking out for down the six to 12 month road in terms of Infosys and its work with an AI-first Google Cloud? Sure, I'll start and let Shyam add, but obviously AI focused with JNAI, right? Being like a major focus area and investment area for our organization, talking to clients, but also enabling our broader organization from a skill perspective. I would also say that just continue to grow our success with clients, right? We were talking about, you were talking about how this helps to work, like we're selling, like we're focused on business outcomes with our clients, right? And working with Google from an industry standpoint, from our joint solutions, and from an AI and JNAI perspective, we can really deliver business outcomes with our portfolios, but I'll let you add more. Yeah, absolutely, that's our focus, business outcomes, and get it delivered as quickly as possible, and that's where our investments are all going in. And the other thing is, we learn from our own experience. We are an AI-first company within our own operations, right? So that's given us a lot of, we are a global company, right? With presence in about 65 countries, and a global workforce, so there's a lot of- You deliver what you do. Yes, yeah. We have experience and credibility, and smart tissue, as they say, yeah. Exactly, and then that is a product offering to scale. Well, those learnings are critical in agile environments. You're constantly refactoring, and that's the real of the value, it's super, super valuable. Yeah, I think ultimately it's business outcomes at speed and scale without agility. Guys, thank you so much for joining John and me. Congratulations again. Thank you. On the 2023 partner of the award, partner of the year award in two categories. We look forward to watching the emphasis Google platform relationship continue to evolve. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, our pleasure. For our guests and for John Furrier, I'm Lisa Martin. You're watching theCUBE's day one coverage, live, Google Cloud Next. Speaking of next, what's next on our program, our day one wrap. I get to sit down with our three analysts, John, Rob Stryche, Dustin Kirkland. We're going to be really giving you a great 15 minutes synopsis of what we learned today on day one of the event. Stick around, we'll see you in a few minutes.